The Civil Rights Movement: Brown V. Board Of Education

The Civil Rights movement is still one of the most important movements in all of American history, it was when our ideology, our courage, and our persistence as a nation was tested and we passed, but not without some road bumps. There are so many struggles defeated that added up to desegregation. things like the 14th amendment, the boycotts, the sit-ins, and all of the legal battles. such as the Brown v. Board of education ruling. The Brown v. Board of education ruling was a pivotal moment in history, it was the point where all the past segregation cases like Plessy v. Ferguson boiled over, it then sparked the rest of the legal movement of the civil rights, its effect even transcends to today standing for the fact that in America justice surpasses …show more content…
He was arrested and convicted in court. Plessy brought his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. His lawyers said the laws violated Plessy's right to "equal protection of the laws." the attorney general said that the law didn't treat blacks as “inferiors”, but just that the law required "separate but equal" railroad cars. On May 18, 1896, the Court ruled in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. By 7 to I (Price). The Plessy decision set up a social order of segregation. they did this based on the assumption that racial equality was not the problem of the court. Although, Plessy wasn’t arguing for racial equality, he was arguing that his being considered “Black” denied him his “rightful” reputation as white. Then the court assumed they knew the thinking of the “whites” so they said that segregation wasn’t black inferiority. the Court came to the conclusion that segregation had no social effects. and that segregation didn’t damage African Americans pride or reputation. So that meant that it was not a violation of the constitution (Green). lawsuits after Plessy kept beating away at the “separate but equal” …show more content…
Board of education ruling is and was revolutionary. It’s the place that we can point to that shows the accumulated efforts of all the past legal battles pay off. it’s also the place that we can point to that shows the spark of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Those things brought about the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Ruling persists even today as a symbol of overcoming diversity against the odds, it shows justice beating bias even when justice was the underdog. It’s one of our proudest moments as a